My advice (and I may get flamed for this) is to torrent it if you are getting unacceptable speeds. The download client is just a really terrible torrent client, so you can find actual torrent files in your XIV folders, click them and they will open in a real torrent client if you have one on your computer. That's what I do when the speed is terribad. Luckily with the last patch the game client seemed to work okay, but in the past I had 24+ hour waits on stuff. Sucky.

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lolgaxe wrote:

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

might just be because you are one of the only people "on" that part. (I know I have ceased hosting older patches, long time ago) Someone might know of somewhere to direct download all the patches, but I, unfortunately, do not know where that is.

[EDIT: Also, wish SE had options for direct download/torrenting because some people simply aren't able to torrent because of network restrictions - some people at university for example]

Edited, Jul 30th 2012 11:28am by Olorinus

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lolgaxe wrote:

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

I recently did 3 fresh installs of FF14 it was always took 30 minute for the Disk to finish and 2 to 2 hours and 30 minutes for the broadband patches to finish.If your doing a single patch download yes those take hours at kilobytes.